Relitto LST 349 (WWII Landing Ship Tank)

The wreck lies at the foot of Punta Papa on the north-west coast of Ponza, with the island headland and the Le Forna ridge to the south and south-east and the Cala dell'Acqua headlands to the east, so those sectors are well sheltered. The exposed window is the open Tyrrhenian to the north, north-west and west — the same NW-facing cliffs the storm drove the LST 349 onto. There is no ocean groundswell here, only wind-sea over fetch: the site takes it worst from a NW-N Mistral/Tramontana and, to a lesser reduced degree, a westerly, while Libeccio (SW) and Scirocco (SE) are largely blocked by the island. In summer the water is typically flat and current-free, but a sustained NW blow raises swell on the point and forces dives to be postponed.